RUN OVER BY TRAINS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 2

RUN OVER BY TRAINS

.5; MAN’S BODY ON UNE | EARLY-MORNING FIND (Per Press Association.) S HAMILTON, this day. ;J; To be struck by a train and the body ’■ run over by several other trains was the fate v/hich befell a private from 7" the Hopuhopu military camp on Friday night. He was Private James Irvine, aged ■ 46 years, camp staff, of Hopuhopu. His wife lives at 36 Kensington L avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. There are two children. The first indication of the tragedy was when a man’s boot containing a foot was discovered in an ashpit in the Frankton railway yard. The police 2 and railway stations along the Frankton-Auckland route were notified. as it was thought that a train from Auckland had carried the boot to Frankton. An immediate search was instituted , and the Ngaruawahia police, with two Huntly railway . men, discovered Private Irvine’s body just north of the Ngaruawahia railway bridge at 3 a.m. on Saturday. The body was badly mutilated. After being hit by the first train, the body was apparently run over by every train which covered the route between 8 o’clock on Friday night and 3 o’clock on Saturday morning.